Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice - Softcover

Fell, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913029956 ISBN 13: 9781913029951

Publisher: Urbanomic, 2022

Synopsis

An anthology of pioneer sound artist Mark Fell's work charting his defiantly unorthodox thinking on time, structure, technology, and the relation between academic and popular electronic music.

In this extensive anthology, Mark Fell, a pioneering artist known for his sound installations and his musical work solo and as part of SND and Sensate Focus, assembles a collection of diverse materials charting his defiantly unorthodox thinking on time, structure, technology, and the relation between academic and popular electronic music.
 
An amalgam of workbook and manifesto, featuring a collection of interleaved statements, diagrammatic scores, and instructional texts, Structure and Synthesis is a direct engagement with Fell's original thinking and his continual provocations in regard to "experimental" music. Alongside reflections on theory and practice, the volume includes exercises for dismantling musical expertise, habits, and intuitions, documenting Fell's explorations of the peripheries of rhythm, shape, and time in perception and performance.
 
Long-term collaborator designer Joe Gilmore provides a striking graphic context for Fell's evolving thinking and the methods and structures he has developed through his solo and collaborative work.

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About the Author

Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham, UK. Recognized as "one of the most compelling and influential electronic artists in the world," Fell draws on electronic music subcultures, experimental film, contemporary philosophy, and radical politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Urbanomic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913029956
• ISBN 13: 9781913029951
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400